YOUNG ADULT WOMEN’S LITERATURE
From the Editors: Young Adult Women’s Literature, 287-294 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey and Laura M. Stevens
Articles
The Backfisch and Stories of Female Adolescence, 295-321 [abstract]
Julie Pfeiffer
Black Girls, White Girls, American Girls: Slavery and Racialized Perspectives in Abolitionist and Neoabolitionist Children’s Literature, 323-352 [abstract]
Brigitte Fielder
Kisses, Bitches: Pretty Little Liars Frames Postfeminism’s Adolescent Girl, 353-377 [abstract]
Sarah Whitney
Material Feminism, Adolescent “Becoming,” and Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens, 379-400 [abstract]
Roberta Seelinger Trites
“We are none of us just one thing”: The Posthumanism of Rachel Hartman’s Half-Dragon Saints, 401-422 [abstract]
Carissa Turner Smith
“None of this ‘trapped-in-a-man’s-body’ bullshit”: Transgender Girls and Wrong-Body Discourse in Young Adult Fiction, 423-448 [abstract]
Jennifer Putzi
Archives
The Poetry of Vesta Stephens: In Search of Black Girls’ Gardens, 449-461
LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Review Essay
Reading and Writing Girls: New Contributions to Feminist Scholarship on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 463-476 [full essay]
Angela Hubler
Reviews
Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century, by Nazera Sadiq Wright, 477-478
Shelby L. Crosby
Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz, translated from Provençal by Claudia Keelan, 479-481
Sarah White
Women Writing the English Republic, 1625-1681, by Katharine Gillespie, 482-484
David Norbrook
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism, by Pam Morris, 484-486
Elsie B. Michie
The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres, by Tricia Lootens, 486-489
Julia Hansen
E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross: Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration, by Anne Jamison, 490-492
Holly A. Laird
Style and the Single Girl: How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922-1977, by Hope Howell Hodgkins, 493-495
Jessica Burstein
Lesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction, by Elizabeth English, 495-499
Jodie Medd
The Astral H. D.: Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts for H. D.’s Poetry and Prose, by Matte Robinson, 499-501
Victoria Papa
Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion, by Monica Carol Miller, 501-503
Laura Patterson
Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference, by Vivian R. Pollak, 503-505
Linda Anderson
Women’s Experimental Writing: Negative Aesthetics and Feminist Critique, by Ellen E. Berry, 505-509
Laura Hinton
Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism, by Teresa Heffernan, 509-512
Roberta Micallef
Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory, by Cheryl Toman, 512-514
Gladys M. Francis
The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism, and Representation, by Heike Mißler, 514-516
Stephanie Harzewski